@RenThing, ugh dear god. Things like that make me want to find all the tall, intimidating, empowered women I can (I'M LOOKING AT YOU, LEBLANC) and just keep these women safe. Jesus.

An army of tall (I only say tall because of the physically intimidating part, women of all sizes would be totally welcome, but visual intimidation yessss), self-assured, badass women seems like this cleric's worst nightmare.

One of my favorite fantasies is one where the women of Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia, and all of that portion of the world, reach up together, as one, and choke the life from such men. Not passionately, not angrily, they just do it, coldly, with almost bored expressions on their faces, as if to say to anyone else, "This is how it will be again in the future if you dare say such atrocities. This is how it will be."

I feel you, but honestly, this is something that men should do. Whenever some men does or says something as horrific as that, other men should track him down, cut off his cock and balls and nail them to his forehead, revoking his right to be a man.

My rationale for saying that men should do this comes from a passage on a sci-fi novel by Michael Stackpole. The passage involve a guy killing a white-supremacist who'd attacked one of his black friends. As the guy killed him he explained. "You see, if [James] did this, in your heads it would be the first shot of a race war. If I do it, it's just pest control."

Good point. My feeling behind women doing it is that it reinforces the fact that they don't need men to clean house or defend them. I agree that men should do something, but women should be the driving force IMO. They're the ones who are the victims.

In a 14-page opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit ruled that the "ancient gesture of insult is not the basis for a reasonable suspicion of a traffic violation or impending criminal activity."

In August of 1966, 2 years prior to the release of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick wrote to the vice president of his production company and asked whether IBM — a company with whom Kubrick consulted during production, and whose logo briefly appears in the film — were aware of HAL's murderous actions in the story. His letter, and Roger Caras's reply, can be seen below.

It's worth noting that both Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke have since denied that HAL represented IBM, and have claimed that the "one-letter shift" between the names "HAL" and "IBM" is purely coincidental.